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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies
Jan Dul,W. Patrick Neumann +1 more
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Conceptual models are presented and examples are given to illustrate the present situation in which ergonomics is not part of regular planning and control cycles in organizations to ensure business performance and the desired situation, which is an integrated part of strategy formulation and implementation.Abstract:
textManagers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen the position of ergonomics and ergonomists in the business and management world, we discuss company strategies and business goals to which ergonomics could contribute. Conceptual models are presented and examples are given to illustrate: 1) the present situation in which ergonomics is not part of regular planning and control cycles in organizations to ensure business performance, and 2) the desired situation in which ergonomics is an integrated part of strategy formulation and implementation. In order to realize the desired situation, considerable changes must take place within the ergonomics research, education and practice community by moving from a health ergonomics paradigm to a business ergonomics paradigm, without losing the health and safety goals.read more
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A strategy for human factors/ergonomics: developing the discipline and profession
Jan Dul,Ralph Bruder,Peter Buckle,Pascale Carayon,Pierre Falzon,William S. Marras,John R. Wilson,Bas van der Doelen +7 more
TL;DR: A strategy for the HFE community to strengthen demand and application of high-quality HFE, emphasising its key elements: systems approach, design driven, and performance and well-being goals is presented.
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New methodological framework to improve productivity and ergonomics in assembly system design
TL;DR: In this article, a new theoretical framework is developed to assess a concurrent engineering approach to assembly system design problems, in conjunction with an ergonomics optimization of the workplace. But the framework does not take into account technological variables (related to work times and methods), environmental variables (i.e., absenteeism, staff turnover, work force motivation) and ergonomic evaluations, and human diversity) to create a comprehensive analysis.
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Industry 4.0 and the human factor – A systems framework and analysis methodology for successful development
TL;DR: A conceptual framework is developed that integrates several key concepts from the human factors engineering discipline that are important in the context of Industry 4.0 and that should thus be considered in future research in this area.
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Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off
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Human factors: spanning the gap between OM and HRM
W. Patrick Neumann,Jan Dul +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review was conducted using a general and two specialist databases to identify empirical studies addressing both human and OS effects in examining manufacturing OS design aspects, and a total of 45 empirical studies were found, addressing both the human and system effects of OS (re)design.
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